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[random3434]

What politicians do you think are RINO's?


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[Oddball]

About 90% of them.

Gimmie an honest stand-up lefty like Harold Ford jr. or Russ Feingold any day over squishy sellouts like Juan McQuisling or the Huckster.

 

[hjmick]

Schwarzenegger.

 

[Baruch Menachem]

I think Rhinoism is in the eye of the beholder. Also, they have political realities that many of us can't appreciate.

Arnold is a good example. He has to deal with what he finds in Sacramento. It aint easy.

 

[Vel]

About 90% of them.

Gimmie an honest stand-up lefty like Harold Ford jr. or Russ Feingold any day over squishy sellouts like Juan McQuisling or the Huckster.

Harold Ford Jr? Sorry Dude, but while he was running for the Senate here he was bending over backwards to try to show how conservative he was. He's been busily trying to change his spots to be liberal enough for New York. Not much stand up about him.

 

[Oddball]

Well, my bad on perception.

Still, anyways, Russ is a stand-up lefty who is almost impossible to hate, just because he's damned honest about who he is.

 

[Big Black Dog]

My Grandfather was an honest politician. He was re-elected for four terms and was well-loved by everybody who knew him. He was called upon all the time by the public. He had to give it all up when his knees went bad on him. Oh, he was the county dog catcher.

 

[Xenophon]

Its lost its meaning as all of them are Democrat lite.

 

[Oddball]

Its lost its meaning as all of them are Democrat lite.

Pretty much.

I like Jason Lewis' analogy best: They're playing between the 40-yard lines.

 

[random3434]

So when did the Republican Party "die"

My dad was a die hard True Blue Republican, and was even a voting delegate here in Indiana for the Party. It seems like now I don't know the difference between a Republican, a Libertarian and now the new party called the Tea Party.

 

[Oddball]

With Teddy Roosevelt, the prototype RINO.

In the modern era, with the Goldwater campaign.

 

[Modbert]

With Teddy Roosevelt, the prototype RINO.

In the modern era, with the Goldwater campaign.

Goldwater isn't Conservative?

He was right though about the religious right taking over the GOP.

 

[Xenophon]

Actually the Dems became the GoP, not the other way around.

The GoP was born as a liberal party to oppose slavery.

 

[Oddball]

With Teddy Roosevelt, the prototype RINO.

In the modern era, with the Goldwater campaign.

Goldwater isn't Conservative?

He was right though about the religious right taking over the GOP.

Goldwater lost and the GOP elite took that as a signal to turn into full-on sellouts.

That's not a comment on the man himself.

 

[Modbert]

Actually the Dems became the GoP, not the other way around.

The GoP was born as a liberal party to oppose slavery.

Just ignore that whole thing called the Southern Strategy and you could be right.

They switch chairs.

 

[Modbert]

Goldwater lost and the GOP elite took that as a signal to turn into full-on sellouts.

That's not a comment on the man himself.

True. And speaking of the southern strategy, that's one of the major reasons why Goldwater lost.

 

[PatekPhilippe]

Actually the Dems became the GoP, not the other way around.

The GoP was born as a liberal party to oppose slavery.

Just ignore that whole thing called the Southern Strategy and you could be right.

They switch chairs.

Southern Strategy doesn't have shit to do with it. All that was is a Nixon campaign strategy to win the White House and it worked. Conservative Democrats are still conservative and still Democrats no matter how much you try to spin it.

 

[elvis]

What would you call Joe Lieberman? a DINO?

 

[Xenophon]

What would you call Joe Lieberman? a DINO?

Douchebag.

 

[Modbert]

Southern Strategy doesn't have shit to do with it. All that was is a Nixon campaign strategy to win the White House and it worked. Conservative Democrats are still conservative and still Democrats no matter how much you try to spin it.

Southern Strategy was not just used by Nixon.

Southern strategy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican Party (GOP) method of winning Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting opposition among the once segregationist South to the cultural upheaval of New Left, Vietnam protests, the Hippie culture, Gun control, Abortion and to desegregation and Civil Rights.

Although the phrase "Southern strategy" is often attributed to former Richard Nixon strategist turned liberal political commentator Kevin Phillips, he did not originate it,[1] but merely popularized it.[2] In an interview included in a 1970 New York Times article, he touched on its essence:

Shows how much you know internet tough guy.